Sara, Kristin, Klaus

Yesterday was a milestone day. Sara Corbett had her first lesson with Hank Sanchez, Kristin Helm stayed up-wind for two sessions and went beyond her dream of getting back to her launch point. And Klaus Schulz gets rid of his clunker, thanks to the USA government.

First thinks first. Sara had been talking about meeting up with Hank for a week or so and today the timing was just right. She dropped by the house, changed into some comfortable clothes and headed for the La Verne parking lot to meet up with Hank.

You can almost hear what Hank is telling Sara about the kite bar. In reality she flew a trainer kite for a few minutes, but quickly moved to a four-line Naish.

I can't remember whether Sara said it was a 4 or 5 meter kite, but it didn't matter because fortunately today there was wind. Nice going wind gods.

There she is keeping the kite at 12 o'clock. Now she's got to get it moving.

I think she's getting it. Look at that form. Great posture. Give her a few minutes and she'll be tearing up the sand.

Yep, I bet Sara can't wait to get back together with Hank. Too bad work has a way of getting in the way. Sara, welcome to kite addiction.

And talking about a gal that has been bitten....meet Kristin.

Kris is also a disciple of Hank Sanchez, but she has a few weeks on Sara. It was just a blink ago that I saw Hank running down the beach as Kristin was body dragging. Now....

she's on the water. So a couple of days ago Dan asked me to take my video camera and tripod down to Belmont and catch Kris in action.

The videos will go here when I figure out how to upload them to blogspot



After such a wonderful day we had a little toast to the two wonderful girls in our lives,
and their great kiting accomplishments today.

Then Klaus drove up in his new car. He turned in his Ford clunker and drove away with a VW.

This is his new Passat. It looks fantastic!!!!

Klaus was so happy. It was almost 11 o'clock by the time he drove away and Klaus had to wake up at 5 A.M. in order to be at work at 6. How does he do it????